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Chapter one
No one knew it. Maybe a few lucky individuals in the world. Of course I’m talking about regular people. Joshua Forbes knew of this though. He is a 15 year old teen who is far from normal. Most would say that because of his incredible skate boarding and surf boarding capabilities, but that is far off from why he is so different. He was adopted as a child and never knew about his real parents. He did not quite understand his difference. But on his journeys he will soon learn.
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!!! “Err”. Slam!
“What was that noise!!?” a female voice yelled.
“Nothing, mom!”, Josh said while looking at his alarm clock laying on the floor in pieces. “Ah sh!t.” He went down the hall to the bathroom turning on the shower. Twenty five minutes later he walked down stairs to have breakfast.
“Joshua, why do you always wear long sleeved shirts? We live in L.A.”
“Well good morning to you too mom”, Josh replied looking a little disgruntled. “What’s for breakfast?”, he asked her. His mom was shorter than him, with long curly brown hair, and had a high squeaky voice. She looked only thirty, when in reality she was 15 years older than that.
“You know very well its lunch time”
“Its breakfast to me”, he chuckled.
She laughed and handed him a plate with grilled cheese. He downed the plate in seconds.
“Bye mom”, he said while grabbing his skate board and walked towards the door.
“Where are you going?”, she asked.
“ To the skate park with Anthony. Ill see you later mom.” He walked out the door. He bought a bottle of water and some snacks for him and his friend as he did plan on staying there for most of the day.
When he arrived he found Anthony by the half pipe. Anthony was about the same height as Josh, around five foot ten or so. He was mixed with a white father and a black mother. Unlike Josh’s longish brown hair Anthony had a tall bright neon red mohawk, and had a similar skater fashion sense as Josh’s.
“Hey dude, what’s up?”, Anthony asked.
“Nothing much man. You?”
“Same old, same old. You got the snacks?”
“Yeah I got them man”. Josh rummaged through his bag, and threw Anthony a bag of chips.
“ So what do you want to do to first?” Anthony asked looking around the concrete wonderland.
“ I don’t know dude. I feel like doing something else.”
“Aw, come on man. Well we could check out the ladies at the beach”, Anthony said with a smile. Josh smiled back.
“Sounds like a plan. But if you want those ladies to check you, then you better start eating less chips”, Josh laughed.
“Oh really? Well your not exactly mister six pack yourself. I gotta go get my swimming trunks an my board then”
“Same here”, Josh said while looking at his watch. “See you in half an hour?”
“Sure”. They both left to get their stuff, an came back about twenty five minutes later at there favorite hangout on the beach.
“Dude I love living here”, Anthony said moving his head every second to look at all the women in bikinis.
“Same here” Josh replied. “I’m going to go surf. Ladies love to watch me surf”
“Oh please”, Anthony said laughing.
“ You ain’t got skillz like me” Josh joked.
“Yeah, you did win all the last surfing competitions we had”
“Well lets hit some waves”, Josh said, and they headed of to the water.
Thirty minutes later they were shredding up waves, getting looks from everyone, especially the ladies. Josh was hitting the biggest waves out their. He was starting to tire, and decided to head back to the beach. Anthony saw him and decided to join. They got back to the beach and decided to chill, and get there tan on.
Josh looked at him and said, “Oh Dude babe eleven o’clock!”
“Keep your voice down, We don’t want people think we’re pervs or somthin”, Anthony laughed.
“Wanna hang over at my place later?”
“Sure”
Two hours later they were at Josh’s house, and were playing some video games and eating snacks in his living room. His mom entered the room.
“Scram you two, I’m going to watch t.v. for a change. Go up to your room or somthin”, she said while turning off their game.
“Mom!, we didn’t get to save!”, Josh whined.
“Take it up stairs”, she said with a chuckle.
“Dude your mom rules”, Anthony laughed as they walked through the door to Josh’s messy room. Josh started up his computer, looking at new surf boards since his was getting old.
“Dude….can I….I….talk to you about something?”, Josh asked him with a nervous tone in his voice.
One week later Josh is sitting in class looking outside at the track field. He was done with his History test an was waiting for everyone to get done so he could talk with Sam. He was board an needed someone to talk to. Sam started passing him notes, she was bored too. She was Josh’s age, had long light brown hair, and was about 5’3”.
“How are you?”, she said now that they could talk.
“Alright I guess”, he was looking at the clock eagerly. “So what have you been up too?”
She looked at him. “Nothing much”, She said while twirling her fingers through her hair.
RING!!!!
The bell had rung, and they were now going to their lockers. Josh was done getting his stuff an met her by the doors that they always left at.
Josh put his Hoodie on an asked “Want to go get something to eat”. Since his stomach had been growling for the past hour.
“Sure”, she said.
Josh put on his sun glasses since it was bright out like always in L.A.
Sam Looked at him an said “I know you’re baking under that hoodie. Its ninety eight degrees out” as she took off her top shirt revealing her tank top. She was already beginning to sweat.
Josh looked over at her an let out a wistle. “Hey babe what’s your number?”, he joked. She pushed him an they laughed. She than gave him another push, an Josh thought she was kidding around, but than thought to himself quickly, an said “Hey lets hurry”
They were done eating at a vegitarian burger joint that was his favorite place to eat. Josh started walking her back to her house since it was on the way to his. They herd sirens not too far away but it was normal. They always herd sirens in their neighborhood.
The two of them were in front of her house. “So…um…see you at school”, she said looking down on the ground.
“Yeah see ya”, he began to turn away back to the street, til he felt her suddenly hug him an kiss his cheek. “OH CRAP!!”, he yelled pushing her off him, an looking at her. He seemed scared. She looked confused at first, an felt her lips, but then confusion left her an she began to feel embarrassed.
“God I’m so sorry!… I…I, she ran into her house.
Oh god he thought to himself. What now? How could this happen? He went back to his house, an called Anthony. “I need you to come over ok?”
“Why?” Anthony asked.
“You remember that thing we talked about? Well we have a problem.”
“I’m coming over”, he said now with a serious tone in his voice.
Anthony was over at his house within fifteen minutes. They talked an Josh seemed so nervous throughout the conversation while Anthony tried to reasure him that everything would be ok. It was eight thirty in the afternoon. And Josh calmed down after awhile so him an Anthony tried to distract themselves from the problem.
Its five months later. Now September. Josh was having a difficult time with Sam so he told her the secrets four months ago that he had told Anthony. She had become best friends with them. But now Josh was having more problems that were not so easy To hide.
Josh was in his bathroom crying, trying to keep his voice down he looked at the electric thermometer and threw it against the ground. He had his hand against the mirror and he noticed it started to fog up.
“EEERRRAAAARRGGHH!!!”, he yelled not really caring at the moment how loud he was. He was spending more time at home and had not been at the beach in the last two months. He was starting to get paler and was avoiding all skin contact with people.